Reverse-sorting Flat View (Grouped) puts contents above folders

There's something strange happening when I turn on displaying the contents of all sub-folder in the current file display (grouped by location) and set sorting by name + reverse. My sort order is usually
#1 Type
#2 Extension
#3 Name

This is the folder before turning on displaying sub-folder contents:

This is the folder after turning on displaying sub-folder contents:


The folders are ordered by name, with files below the folder they're in, ordered by name as well.

If I reverse ordering by Name (and Name at #3, only, the rest stays as it is) everything is good, the folders are ordered by name descending with the files below them, ordered by name descending as well.

Now if I reverse ordering by Name only (making it #1) then the files will be put above their respective folders:

While this behavior is certainly logical, it's quite confusing at the same time. Is it intentional?

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You're absolutely right, changed them to be inline.

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In Flat View (Grouped), the list will be upside down if the sort is in reversed mode.

  • When doing a single-column sort, the sort order is reversed by clicking the sort column's header when already sorting by it.

  • When doing a multi-column sort, an extra arrow appears at the far left of the header which reverses the whole sort when clicked. That has the same effect on the folders in Flat View (Grouped).

    (Reversing individual columns doesn't make the overall sort order reversed, when sorting by multiple columns.)

That explains why it seemed inconsistent between single- and multi-column sorting. It was because the sort order was not being reversed in the multi-column cases shown in the screenshots.

All of that said, when reverse-sorting, it probably would make more sense for the order of the folders to reverse while keeping the things inside each folder underneath it. I am not sure if there is a good reason for why it works the other way at present. We'll look into that.

That explains why it seemed inconsistent between single- and multi-column sorting. It was because the sort order was not being reversed in the multi-column cases shown in the screenshots.

No, there was no inconsistency there, that part was quite fine. The sort order was actually reversed in multi-column case, just as it was assumed, with the multi-column conditions perfectly sated by the overall reverse sort order. The quirk came from the fact, that, just as you said, one would look for the files in a folder beneath the folder itself. Not necessarily making more sense (the current behavior is more 'logical') but more traditional, thus, expected.